Why are US shares performing so well when the economy isn’t?
A staggering 20 million Americans lost their jobs in April and yet the US stock market had its best month…
Why not replace politicians with the ‘experts’?
Is it time to replace our elected politicians with non-elected experts? We have always voted representatives into public office. But…
Why was this lockdown sceptic’s video removed from YouTube?
Professor Karol Sikora is a rare voice of reason in these strange times. So why was a video featuring him discussing…
Clear and absent danger: why proxy voting violates the American system
When House Democrats passed their $3 trillion coronavirus ‘relief’ package late last week, they also jammed through a rules change…
Obama’s political police
In the beginning there was a clandestine ‘surveillance’ and ‘unmasking’ program by operatives in the Obama executive branch, targeting figures…
Liberate London from lockdown now
I know good news is not allowed in coronavirus Britain. Instead we’re all meant to cower before the death stats,…
Coronavirus’s forgotten victims
I am hearing stories about people with disabilities that make me feel ill. Visitors to care homes (parents and siblings,…
How Macron gamed the EU Covid fund
There are not that many advantages to electing a former investment banker as president. They are often aloof. They don’t…
Why is the United Nations trying to police our language on gender?
George Orwell popularised the word ‘thoughtcrime’, but he also wrote extensively about the destruction of language. This week, the United Nations…
Are young people more likely to catch Covid?
It has been clear from the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic that there is a very steep age profile to…
In defence of free markets in the time of coronavirus
One of the dominant political themes of the moment is that the big state, alongside either a high tax and…
The data is clear – Covid is receding
Data from across the capital is highly reassuring. The numbers are coming down. To be confident about what is actually…
Wolf Warriors or China’s whores?
The media has quickly adopted the romanticised term ‘wolf warriors’ for those who in reality should be termed China’s prostitutes.…
Is Trump more left-wing than Biden?
Just when it seemed that Donald Trump had finally committed political suicide — his notion of injecting disinfectant to cure…
The most important issue of 2020: sexist kids water bottles
Coronavirus seems to reveal the best and worst of humanity. Most Australians have spent the last two months adjusting to…
Trump’s hydroxychloroquine kick is a billionaire quirk
Though it is yet to enjoy the endorsement of the UN, or the approval of the Supreme Court, the greatest…
No, Prime Minister. We don’t need to go back to the Accord
PM Scott Morrison echoed Menzies when he claimed the last Australian election for the “quiet Australians” – the C21 equivalent…
Should Britain relax the two-metre distance rule?
Could the Government be about to relax the two-metre rule for social distancing? On Wednesday morning, professor Robert Dingwall, a…
Keir Starmer’s big weakness was exposed at PMQs
It has come down to a classroom contest. The swot versus the wag. The smart Alec against the rugger captain.…
Libya is now the Middle East’s most important proxy war
Libya has been in the midst of civil war for almost a decade. However, in the last year, the conflict…
Boris Johnson is facing a rebellion over lockdown
Today is the last day of the hybrid parliament. When MPs return after recess on 2 June, it will be…
Hong Kong is baffled by Britain’s coronavirus response
To Hongkongers, Britain’s coronavirus response is nothing short of a disaster. Since I began self-isolating in London days before the…
Could negative gilt yields be Boris Johnson’s magic money tree?
A few months ago, Boris Johnson fought a general election saying that there was no ‘magic money tree’ and accusing…
Stanford study suggests coronavirus might not be as deadly as flu
One of the great unknowns of the Covid-19 crisis is just how deadly the disease is. Much of the panic…
In the absence of overseas student cash cows…
In the absence of overseas student cash cows, the University of Tasmania is proud to offer you an entirely worthless…
